The Business Man: Junk Bar, moving comics and more

Junk Bar opened July 19 next to the Healthy Junk restaurant. The bar features six taps and bottles of assorted beer and wine. COURTESY OF JUNK BAR

An all-natural happy hour

With a selection of all organic beers, wines and specialty drinks, the Junk Bar in Anaheim is attempting to make drinking as healthy as possible.

The new bar has opened next to the vegan Healthy Junk restaurant in Anaheim's Center Street Promenade. It features six taps plus assorted bottles of organic beer and wine.

The bar also serves specialty drinks such as white and red wine sangrias. Chef Lynda Santos serves these drinks with chunks of seasonal fruit selected from the weekly Center Street Farmers Market.

Appetizers such as olive tapenade, eggplant caviar and artichoke spinach dip are served with mini baguettes or a variety of assorted nuts. Customers looking for more than something to nibble on can order from the neighboring Healthy Junk restaurant menu.

The Junk Bar is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 11a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Baking from home

After the California Homemade Food Act passed last year allowing people to cook and sell food products created in home kitchens, Nichole Carpenter decided to make her love of baking work for her.

She started her home-business, Madge's Bakery, in Orange three months ago. Named after her mother, the baking business was one of the first home bakeries established in Orange.

"People have always told me that I should sell my cookies and muffins because they are so good," Carpenter said.

With 15 years of baking experience, Carpenter now sells her peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and zucchini bread muffins to customers through online orders and Provision's Market in Old Towne Orange.

"It's the greatest thing to be able to get up in the morning and not have to drive 20 miles to work," Carpenter said. "And I've always loved to bake, so now I get to do it as often as I can."

New urgent care in Brea

Placentia-Linda Hospital is celebrating the grand opening of its new urgent care at 2415 E. Imperial Highway in Brea on Aug. 27.

The new 3,900-square-foot facility is equipped to handle non-emergency injuries and illnesses, such as broken bones, flues and infections. The location will also provide x-ray services.

Comic book shop finds new hideout

Since it opened in November, Comic Book Hideout in Fullerton has attracted a growing community of comic book and nerd culture enthusiasts. It has become so popular, it has outgrown its original location on Lemon Street.

Owner Glynnes Pruett said the larger location will allow the store to carry new types of merchandise, sponsor more communities of comic enthusiasts and host larger events. Her new hideout is three times the size of the original and is located at 215 W. Commonwealth Ave.

Many of Pruett's customers even helped her move to the new location.

Send your north Orange County business tips and news to Anders Howmann, ahowmann@ocregister.com.

Junk Bar opened July 19 next to the Healthy Junk restaurant. The bar features six taps and bottles of assorted beer and wine. COURTESY OF JUNK BAR
Muffins sit in custom boxes resembling home ovens. Nichole sells her baked goods online and at Provision's Market in Old Towne Orange. COURTESY OF NICHOLE CARPENTER
Nichole Carpenter started her home-baking business in Orange three months ago. COURTESY OF NICHOLE CARPENTER
Carpenter's assorted cookies and muffins sit on display. She started her home baking business in Orange three months ago. COURTESY OF NICHOLE CARPENTER

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